When he is seventeen Edmund Gulley runs away. He spends three months on an island before the knowing of the wolf calls him back. He comes back and his servants have left him and there is blood on the basement window and the wolf has eaten through his stores \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to kill you,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not an uncommon reaction,\u201d says the wolf. \u201cThough really, Edmund.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know,\u201d he says miserably, because the wolf is immortal, invincible, and has raised him from a foundation of twisted love. \u201cBut you\u2019re evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wolf lolls its tongue. It grins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen that\u2019s the right thing to do, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re teasing me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI only have one Edmund Gulley,\u201d says the wolf. \u201cLet me appreciate him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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